Haunted House

• ESOL
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)
• Higher Education (degree)

Warm-up

Where do you usually ... ?

What do you usually use to ... ?

study, hall, dining room, bedroom, living room, kitchen, garage (driveway)

A night in a haunted hotel

• Do you believe in ghosts? 

• Are there buildings in your town / city that people think are haunted?

• Read a newspaper article about The Langham, a hotel in London. With a partner, answer questions 1-5.

English File (4th edition) SB 8C

1. What famous people stayed in The Langham?

2. Which film did the hotel appear in?

3. What did the journalist see in 1973?

4. What sometimes happens in room 333 when guests are asleep?

5. What happened to a player in the English cricket team?

1. Listen to two guests at the hotel. Did they see a ghost?
2. Listen again. Who did these things happen to? Put M (man) or W (woman).

1. knew about the ghosts in the hotel.
2. woke up during the night.
3. heard strange noises.
4. felt frightened when he/she heard the noises.
5. complained to Reception.
6. wrote to the hotel after getting home.
7. only stayed at the hotel for one night.
8. doesn't want to stay at the hotel again.

Audio 8.19

Complete the sentences from the article and the listening. What do the phrasal verbs mean?

1. The journalist got _________ and ran.
2. Suddenly the taps in the bathroom turned ______ . 
3. We woke _____ at about 5.30 in the morning.
4. The noises stopped and we went _____ to sleep.
5. We checked ______ of the hotel the same morning.

Would you like to stay in
the Langham in room 333?
Why (not)?

1. There ______ a strange noise outside our door.

2. There ______ any more strange noises.

3. We knew that people said there _____ ghosts.

4. There ______ anybody in that room last night.

was

wasn't

were

weren't

Grammar

Vocabulary

Prepositions: place and movement

Read two sentences from the text. Complete them with the correct prepositions.

1.  A Victorian doctor appears ______ room 333.
2.  A German prince walks _______ the door in the early morning.